On 11/3/11 8:19 PM, Peter Klügl wrote:
To browse annotations you use the outline view, and for FSes the
Feature Structure Browser
view.
The browser displays all annotations in a tree sorted by their types
and provides filtering fields for the type name and the covered text.
So when you have many annotation of many different types, you can get
a faster overview of the annotations you are looking for.
A type tree representation is not always useful, so I believe we would
need both flat and
hierarchical types. What do you think to support both in the outline,
and provide an option to choose
the representation which suits the users needs. Like you can do in the
"Project Explorer"?
Search support could also be added, if I remember correctly there is
already a jira for that.
What does the selection view do? Shown annotations which a user could
select at the caret position?
Yes, that is useful for me because I have a lot of overlapping
annotations. For example, I model some features for CRFs as
annotations with TextMarker rules and with this view I can inspect the
tokens.
Selecting some kind of annotation or feature structure is still a weak
spot in the Annotation Editor and
the surrounding views.
I am +1 to improve these things after 2.4.0, then we have enough time
to think everything through
and can also improve other useability problems in one go.
Jörn
